The Cellar

The Cellar (http://cellar.org/index.php)
-   Current Events (http://cellar.org/forumdisplay.php?f=4)
-   -   Meanwhile in... (http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=26464)

Gravdigr 07-10-2018 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mountain Mule (Post 1011437)
Frankly, I'm miffed. Sexobon hasn't insulted me yet (that I'm aware of). What's up with that?

Make a misstake.

sexobon 07-10-2018 04:05 PM

I did not take that miss. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never.

tw 07-10-2018 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mountain Mule (Post 1011437)
tw should challenge sexobon to a duel with the weapon of choice being the RPK-16.

Fun is greater with an AR-16. Using MS-16 a judges.

16 was also a good year. I still had enough fingers and toes to count the years.

sexobon 07-11-2018 03:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tw (Post 1011465)
Fun is greater with an AR-16. Using MS-16 a judges.

Ignorance is bliss. :rolleyes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by tw (Post 1011465)
16 was also a good year.

Of course, '16 is the year Trump was elected President. :D

Mountain Mule 07-11-2018 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tw (Post 1011465)

16 was also a good year. I still had enough fingers and toes to count the years.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 1011467)


Of course, '16 is the year Trump was elected President. :D

And as a result, '16 is the year I joined the Resistance. I can't wait until the democrats start the Civil War, but first we must finish winning the Battle of Bowling Green. ;)

xoxoxoBruce 07-11-2018 02:23 PM

Democrats are too busy fighting each other. :rolleyes:

tw 07-11-2018 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mountain Mule (Post 1011507)
And as a result, '16 is the year I joined the Resistance.

Well 2000 years later, the world went to hell. 16 was a good year.

Gravdigr 07-12-2018 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mountain Mule (Post 1011507)
...but first we must finish winning the Battle of Bowling Green. ;)

GASP!! :eek: Them's mah peoples!

Gravdigr 07-12-2018 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tw (Post 1011526)
Well 2000 years later, the world went to hell. 16 was a good year.

:)

Griff 07-13-2018 06:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1011510)
Democrats are too busy fighting each other. :rolleyes:

Yep. The blue dogs are voting for the latest SC nutter. The excuse being they can't lose the seat to a Republican... What is the point of holding the seat if you're voting with the GOP anyway?

sexobon 07-31-2018 08:29 PM

Meanwhile in Australia
 
2 Attachment(s)
Quote:


94 participants ran Australia’s Ellery Brookman Goldfields Pipeline Half Marathon earlier in July. The typical finisher had approximately 2.02 legs.

The average was thrown off by a local stray dog named Stormy, who met the runners before the race and then, citing a light schedule of licking himself and sleeping for 18 yards that day, decided to join them. Stormy ran the course diligently, hitting every checkpoint and finishing with an estimated time of 2:30 — good enough for a top 70 finish. Despite not wearing a bib, the very good dog was recognized for his efforts, earning a medal for running 13.1 miles despite stumpy legs.

“This dog is walking around, making itself known to all the runners. We get the air horn out and say ‘Go’ and off he goes with everybody,” volunteer coordinator Allison Hunter told Australia’s ABC News. ”Speaking with all the aid stations and marshals later, we found out he stopped at every single one.”

At the race stations he was having a little runaround and saying hello to the volunteers and participants, and then he would team up with another runner and keep on following the crowd. He was just out there having a trot through the bush and enjoying people’s company.

Stormy didn’t get much time to revel in his accomplishment, however. Rangers took the canine from the finish line, which is a pet-free zone, to the pound after no one claimed him at the end of the race. He’ll spend up to seven days in dog jail waiting for his owner to pick him up. Organizers were told the good boy is a year-old resident of a local Aboriginal community who doesn’t have a single owner, but knows everyone in town.

We thought he deserved a medal since he had done the whole thing. So Allison and I went down to the rangers, gave him a medal and gave him more exposure so hopefully the owner might see.

If no one claims the rugged half-marathoner pup by the end of the week, he’ll be put up for adoption. Anyone in western Australia looking for a running mate will be able to apply to give him his forever home for a cost of about $300, plus expenses.

So, if you’re feeling unmotivated today for any cause, just remember; if this stumpy little Australian dog can do it, so can you.



Griff 08-04-2018 08:49 AM

Look at that good boy!

Carruthers 08-04-2018 10:45 AM

I had a feeling that I'd seen a similar report a couple of years ago.

Eventually I found this:

Quote:

Dog Accidentally Joins Half Marathon, Finishes Race In 7th Place


Quote:

The marathon entrant finished in seventh place, but she made several stops along the way.
Ludivine, a two-year-old bloodhound in Alabama, won a medal for her seventh-place finish in the Trackless Train Trek Half-Marathon.
She raced with other, two-legged runners, crossing the finish line of the 13.1-mile course with a time of 1:32:56.
All of this came as quite a surprise to Ludivine's owner who had let the dog out to do her business and thought she was just out running in the woods.

Undertoad 08-04-2018 11:04 AM

What IS it about the half marathon that dogs love it so much!! It's the only race they ever run!!

IotD from 2011: Dog runs half marathon to support cancer research

http://cellar.org/2011/dozer.jpg

Why: because they can't do a full marathon, and any shorter race is not newsworthy. Therefore the half marathon is the only race we will read about good dogs entering. Let's see if this hypothesis proves out.

Clodfobble 08-04-2018 11:26 AM

Sometimes they do it.

Sometimes they even train dogs to do it for blind marathon runners. (Mute your speakers, a video on the page autoplays.) But they freely admit that of the 165 they've been training for marathons with the blind, only 12 are "race-ready."

xoxoxoBruce 08-04-2018 08:45 PM

Maybe because half marathons are usually run on less rural turf and runners are spaced closer they're more likely to pick up a loose dog without drawing much attention except for the runners.

I got the impression the Alabama dog didn't stay with the same runners for the whole race, but spent more time at the water stations. Probably they wouldn't hand he a cup and had to scrounge what the runners discarded.

sexobon 09-01-2018 12:19 PM

Meanwhile in London...
 
2 Attachment(s)
Blimp of London mayor flies above UK capital


A giant blimp of London Mayor Sadiq Khan hovered Saturday above Westminster in a crowdfunded protest against his record on tackling violent crime in the UK capital.

Attachment 64744

A small crowd of supporters and members of the media gathered to see the giant balloon -- which depicts the mayor reclining in a small yellow bikini -- as it was flown for two hours, the Press Association news agency reported. …

Attachment 64745

… Protest organizer Yanny Bruere, who describes himself as a British free speech advocate, said he had set up the crowdfunding campaign in response to London authorities' decision to allow a "Trump Baby" blimp to be flown during a visit to Britain in July by President Donald Trump.

He said the Parliament Square event would mark "the fightback for free speech in our country." ...

… The blimp's swimwear is a reference to a controversial weight-loss advertisement banned from the Transport for London network by Khan in 2016 that depicted a woman in a yellow bikini with the slogan "Are you beach body ready?" ...


tw 09-01-2018 02:57 PM

Girl wearing bikini is banned. But topless girls every day in each newstand is not? What and why is the reasoning?

sexobon 09-01-2018 03:48 PM

1 Attachment(s)
He did it so his teenaged girls wouldn't be body shamed on public transportation. It had nothing to do with pandering to voters.

Attachment 64747

sexobon 09-15-2018 10:18 AM

Meanwhile in Texas...
 
Stop, hey, what's that sound. Everybody look what's going down...

Were Alamo defenders ‘heroic’? Committee suggests removing the word from Texas curriculum.

Texas State Board of Education votes to erase Hillary Clinton [and Hellen Keller] from history curriculum

Clod? Clod? Anyone? Clod?

Clodfobble 09-15-2018 12:31 PM

Good. Now get rid of all the remaining TEKS requirements, too, and teach the kids how to use critical thinking and expression to make their own arguments about whether a historical figure was heroic or made a worthy impact.

sexobon 10-12-2018 09:02 PM

It looks like that Texas State Board of Education vote to erase Hillary Clinton from its history curriculum was a good call. Hillary requested that the State Department revoke her security clearance; so, they did. Ha! People knew she wasn't trustworthy and now it's official ('bout time she came clean).

xoxoxoBruce 12-13-2018 09:03 PM

1 Attachment(s)
Meanwhile in communications...

Undertoad 12-13-2018 09:57 PM

This infographic is now very old.

Google, Apple now media giants

Comcast is now at the top of one of those heaps

CBS and Viacom are owned by one single holding company whose owner also owns Netflix

Disney hasn't owned Miramax since 2010 and Miramax is sorta hosed anyway

With a few exceptions, the newspapers are no longer powerful

Radio stations, where are the resuscitation paddles

For Millenials half of traditional TV viewing has moved to other platforms

Gravdigr 12-14-2018 02:58 PM

I think iHeartRadio owns every staion on the fucking spectrum. Cant stand 'em.

Interrupt the fuckiHeartRadioing song to promo the staiHeartRadiotion (& iHeartRadio) I'm already listeiHeartRadioning to!? Yeah, fuck you iHeartiHeartRadioRadio.

tw 12-15-2018 09:21 AM

iHeartRadio filed for bankruptcy about 8 months ago. No reason to post profanity at them. Court will be more insulting.

Gravdigr 12-15-2018 12:46 PM

Then they need to disappear.

Fuck 'em.

They're run by business school graduates, you know...and I'm sure they prolly use ViseGrips.

As a hand tool.:evil2:

sexobon 01-19-2019 09:22 PM

Meanwhile in Mississippi ...
 
Quote:

This 101-year-old woman brought down two deer with a single shot during hunting outing

Talk about getting bang for your buck.

A 101-year-old Mississippi woman managed to strike down two deer with one bullet during a recent hunting outing, the Clarion Ledger reported.

Bertha Vickers says she initially let one doe pass in hopes of a bigger deer showing up. When one did, she didn’t miss her shot.

"Then I saw two deer on the ground,” Vickers told the newspaper. “It shot plum through both of them. They both dropped right there. They didn't take another step. I knew it was back there, but I didn't realize it was that close to her where it could get shot." …

… She told the newspaper that she’s going to continue hunting for “as long as I can.”

Vickers, who lives in Morgantown, said she celebrated her triumph by helping to clean the deer and gave much of the meat to her grandchildren, aside from keeping a few steaks for herself.

xoxoxoBruce 01-20-2019 12:59 AM

I wonder if she really comprehended the penetrating power of her ammo?

Clodfobble 01-20-2019 07:42 AM

I wonder if her grandchildren threw all that meat in the trash because they'd rather just go to Subway?

sexobon 01-20-2019 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1023598)
I wonder if her grandchildren threw all that meat in the trash because they'd rather just go to Subway?

The closest Subway is 7.8 mi. to the southeast. The next closest is 18.5 mi. southwest. Seems traveling there enough times to offset the amount of venison reaped would get kind of expensive.

OTOH, if the grandkids did go to Subway and she hitched a ride with 'em, she could probably get a senior citizens discount for some cheap eats.

Six of one, half dozen of the other I suppose.

Clodfobble 01-20-2019 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 1023605)
The closest Subway is 7.8 mi. to the southeast. The next closest is 18.5 mi. southwest. Seems traveling there enough times to offset the amount of venison reaped would get kind of expensive.

Not the point. Buying furniture instead of taking Grandma's free antiques, buying new fashions instead of reusing Grandpa's perfectly good flannel work shirts, buying Smuckers when Grandma makes jars and jars of that rhubarb shit for you every Christmas... It's certainly possible that her grandkids appreciate random 50-pound meat deliveries that they need a second freezer just to store, what do I know? Plenty of people live that way. But my experience, in general, is that the grandkids are too polite to tell Grandma her obligations-masquerading-as-gifts are wasted on people who make enough money to buy their own food.

sexobon 01-20-2019 12:39 PM

It was a windfall, a twofer, a fluke and if the grandkids didn't want it all, I'm sure there would have been others who would. Regifting isn't limited to people who make enough money to buy their own food. Perhaps some federal employees live in the area!

Fact is, I know well off people who pool their money to buy large quantities of meat with each contributing towards the amount they have place to store be it a separate freezer; or, refrigerator freezer. Wise spending habits are part of how they became well off and remain so.

But that's not the point. I was mostly pulling your leg; 'cause, you've got the kind of *legs I like.



* [NSFW] feet on one end and couter on the other

xoxoxoBruce 01-20-2019 06:46 PM

I sold several veal caves and hogs to multiple people. They agreed among themselves who got what for how much before I took the animal to the slaughterhouse.

Gravdigr 01-21-2019 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1023598)
I wonder if her grandchildren threw all that meat in the trash because they'd rather just go to Subway?

That's be a pretty rotten piece of shit to accept it and then throw it away.

Gravdigr 01-21-2019 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1023624)
obligations-masquerading-as-gifts

:facepalm::headshake

sexobon 03-09-2019 10:39 AM

Meanwhile in Illinois...
 
1 Attachment(s)
Vewy vewy wesilient wittle old wabbit.

Quote:

Attachment 66698
Mick, an Illinois rabbit who celebrated his 16th birthday in February, has been declared the world's oldest rabbit by Guinness. Photo courtesy Guinness World Records

March 8 (UPI) … Mick, an agouti rabbit from Berwyn, Ill., marked his 16th birthday on Feb. 9, and Guinness said that milestone made him the world's oldest rabbit (living). …

… The oldest rabbit ever is listed by Guinness as Flopsy, a wild-born Australian rabbit that was taken in by a Tasmania resident in 1964 and lived for nearly 19 more years.

Gravdigr 03-09-2019 11:32 AM

That rabbit has survived many a Rabbit Pie Day.

Long may you run. rabbit run rabbit run run run

xoxoxoBruce 03-09-2019 11:34 AM

How do we know it's old, maybe it's just drugged. :right:

tw 03-09-2019 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1027856)
How do we know it's old, maybe it's just drugged.

It saw its shadow. What does that mean?

Gravdigr 03-09-2019 12:57 PM

It means a light was shining on it.

sexobon 03-09-2019 01:28 PM

1 Attachment(s)
Attachment 66703

sexobon 04-14-2019 10:36 AM

Meanwhile in Las Cruces, New Mexico
 
Looks like it's time for this Sanctuary; ahem, Welcoming City to put its money where its mouth is.

Quote:

Migrants dropped off in New Mexico; city asks for donations

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Border Patrol agents dropped off asylum-seeking migrants in New Mexico's second most populous city for the second day in a row Saturday, prompting Las Cruces city officials to appeal for donations of food and personal hygiene items and a state medical program to seek volunteers to provide health assessments of migrants. …

… The statement said 83 migrants arrived Saturday, following about 95 who were dropped off by the Border Patrol on Friday …

''' City spokesman Udell Vigil said Saturday that migrants could be arriving "for the next several days." …

… The statement said needed items included utensils, napkins, paper plates, sanitary napkins, shampoo, clothing, towels, blankets, canned food, bottled water, foam padding for bedding and stuffed toys. ...
Soon to be heard again in Las Cruces:

Now you can say goodbye to frizz.
Live Life. Stay Free.
Got milk?
Where's the beef?
Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?
L'eggo my Eggo!

Gravdigr 04-14-2019 11:29 AM

I think TW has hacked someone's account...

sexobon 04-28-2019 04:09 PM

Meanwhile in the USA...
 
1 Attachment(s)
This makes it sound like visiting places that are no fun have become a thing now.

Attachment 67639

xoxoxoBruce 04-29-2019 12:36 AM

Oh for Christ's sake...
Quote:

Alaska: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
It’s hard to beat America’s last frontier when it comes to free outdoor activities. Case in point, Glacier Bay’s borders span 3.3 million acres — that’s not a typo. For an entrance fee of $0, you can trek across seashores and mountain summits, photograph crystalline glaciers, visit a living laboratory or check out a living biosphere reserve.
And get there for free if you hitchhike and don't eat for a few weeks. Perfect for a family outing (with a passport).:rolleyes:

Gravdigr 04-29-2019 10:50 AM

The free attraction in CA?

Look up.

In Alabama?

Go to a store.

ETA(<--ya see that, do ya see it? Huh do ya? Feel better?): KY's attraction? Brace yourself, drink bourbon. For free. Uh-huh. You get about a tablespoon. Srsly.

Gravdigr 05-12-2019 11:49 AM

1 Attachment(s)
Attachment 67773

:jig:

xoxoxoBruce 05-12-2019 02:52 PM

1 Attachment(s)
Meanwhile in Australia...

Attachment 67777

sexobon 05-14-2019 07:37 PM

Meanwhile in the USA...
 
There's a critical blood shortage and there isn't even a government shutdown in progress!

Gift cards anyone?

Quote:

Type O blood supply low, Red Cross offering gift cards for donations

The American Red Cross announced Tuesday that the shortage in Type O blood is so critical nationwide that the organization is offering $5 Amazon gift cards to donors as an incentive to boost supply.

Currently, there are only six units of Type O blood available for every 100,000 people, but at least two times that amount is needed every day. …

… Last month, approximately 11,500 fewer Type O donations were collected due to spring break, and schools reducing the number of blood drives organized at the end of the year.

Donors are encouraged to schedule a blood donation appointment today by using the Blood Donor App, by visiting redcrossblood.org, or calling 1-800-RED CROSS. Individuals can also open the Red Cross Blood skill on an Alexa-enabled device. ...
She's a vampire!

henry quirk 05-15-2019 09:43 AM

Gift cards?

Don't they pay cash any more?

Gravdigr 05-15-2019 10:40 AM

'S gonna cost more than $5...

sexobon 09-14-2019 09:42 AM

Meanwhile in Brexitland…
 
1 Attachment(s)
Quote:

Solid gold toilet stolen from Winston Churchill's birthplace

LONDON (AP) — Thieves have stolen a solid gold toilet worth up to 1 million pounds ($1.25 million) from the birthplace of British wartime leader Winston Churchill.

Attachment 68688
© Provided by The Associated Press FILE - This Sept. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Thieves have stolen the solid gold toilet worth up to 1 million pounds from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. The toilet, the work of Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, had been installed only two days earlier at Blenheim Palace, west of London, after previously being on show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. (AP Photo, File)

… Prior to the theft, visitors to the Cattelan exhibition could book a three-minute appointment to use the toilet. ...
Desperate times call for desperate measures.

xoxoxoBruce 09-14-2019 10:17 AM

How many selfies could you send in 3 minutes? :rolleyes:

Clodfobble 09-14-2019 11:37 AM

Standard size of a toilet is 72.4 cm tall, 49.4 cm wide, and 71 cm deep. That's roughly 253,936 cubic centimeters.

Now of course it's not a solid rectangular prism, those measurements are the extremities, so let's say as little as 1/3 of that volume is actual gold. That's 84,645 cubic centimeters (again with rounding.)

Solid gold weighs 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter. Meaning this thing weighs about 1,635,346 grams = 1,635 kilograms = 3,605 pounds = 1.64 tons.

The article mentions they used "at least two vehicles" to get away, which makes sense, but that's a hell of a thing to dolly out the door in the first place.

sexobon 09-14-2019 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1038592)
How many selfies could you send in 3 minutes? :rolleyes:

I'd like to see a picture of a dog drinking out of it (maybe a Golden Retriever).

Undertoad 09-14-2019 12:08 PM

i would produce a nugget of gold for this thing.

i would do it by first eating 24 carrots

lumberjim 09-14-2019 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 1038602)
i would produce a nugget of gold for this thing.

i would do it by first eating 24 carrots

Wizard! Alchemist!

sexobon 09-14-2019 02:50 PM

It would give new meaning to the term "Going for the gold."

Carruthers 09-14-2019 03:24 PM

Meanwhile, over in Weird News...

https://www.cellar.org/showpost.php?...postcount=4110


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:41 AM.

Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.